“A company’s ability to respond to unplanned events, good or bad, is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.”
Bill Gates
Business @ the Speed of Thought (Primary source)
Business @ the Speed of Thought, co-authored with Collins Hemingway, is Bill Gates’ second major book and his most sustained argument for how digital technology should reshape the internal workings of a company.
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“Few skills are more important than knowing how to distinguish what’s true from what’s false.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“The axiom that you learn more from your failures than your successes is trite but absolutely true.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“Bad gains are truly losses.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“A good lawyer, a bad neighbor.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“If you have the ability, you have the obligation.”
— A.P. Møller Disputed“Strategically a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and courage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news.”
— Bill Gates Primary sourceAgility Flexibility Business Challenge